--- title: GoPro Commercial for Boring Office Job: Viral Video description: Forget high-octane skydiving or intrepid spelunking canonical: https://time.com/3828820/gopro-commercial-boring-office-job/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-20T21:10:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:56.700Z og:title: This Guy Turned His Boring Office Job Into a Hilarious Fake GoPro Commercial og:description: Forget high-octane skydiving or intrepid spelunking og:url: https://time.com/3828820/gopro-commercial-boring-office-job/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Guy Turned His Boring Office Job Into a Hilarious Fake GoPro Commercial twitter:description: Forget high-octane skydiving or intrepid spelunking twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Guy Turned His Boring Office Job Into a Hilarious Fake GoPro Commercial by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 20, 2015 9:10 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 20, 2015 9:10 PM UTC You know those super-intense, pulse-pounding [GoPro ads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PDXmYoF5U) that show people engaging in all sorts of aerial acrobatics and potentially life-threatening [physical activities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUEZCxBcM78)? Well, one guy decided to grab his GoPro camera and recreate those videos to show that his 9-5 office job is just as thrilling as high-octane sports. He works in a real estate firm, as he explains [on Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/338kx5/i%5Fwore%5Fa%5Fgopro%5Fto%5Fmy%5Fboring%5Foffice%5Fjob%5Fdecided%5Fto/). He goes about his daily activities — faxing, surfing the Internet, going to the bathroom, etc. — in that intense GoPro style, and the result is quite funny. _Read next:_ [_Here’s the New Camera That Could Kill GoPro_](http://time.com/3728253/xiaomi-yi-action-camera-gopro/?iid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3828820/gopro-commercial-boring-office-job/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3828820/gopro-commercial-boring-office-job/"},"headline":"This Guy Turned His Boring Office Job Into a Hilarious Fake GoPro Commercial","datePublished":"2015-04-20T21:10:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:56.700Z","description":"Forget high-octane skydiving or intrepid spelunking","url":"https://time.com/3828820/gopro-commercial-boring-office-job/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3828820/gopro-commercial-boring-office-job/","name":"This Guy Turned His Boring Office Job Into a Hilarious Fake GoPro Commercial"}}]}] ```